{"product_id":"1a-la-tomari-first-edition-2009","title":"1ā — LA Tomari, first edition, 2009","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"104\" data-end=\"582\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"104\" data-end=\"108\"\u003e1ā\u003c\/em\u003e is a quiet and luminous photobook by Japanese photographer LA Tomari, published in a limited edition of 500 copies by WALL in 2009. Its cover, minimalist and matte, carries only a small cluster of global time zones and a single elongated syllable — “1ā” — hinting at a poetics of distance, drift, and simultaneity. The photographs inside unfold as a visual travelogue suspended in time: not reportage, not diary, but something between the two — cool, still, and unanchored.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"584\" data-end=\"990\"\u003eShot across multiple geographies but never tethered to place, Tomari’s work reflects a gentle cosmopolitanism — a gaze that touches surfaces lightly, noticing light, texture, and passing gestures. Designed by Masami Fuseya and translated by Miles Yebisu, the book is a material object of care, its rough-textured paper and restrained typography evoking the independent print culture of early 2000s Tokyo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"992\" data-end=\"1288\"\u003eThere is no spectacle here, no hard edges — just a photographic language built on inference, echo, and understated rhythm. \u003cem data-start=\"1115\" data-end=\"1119\"\u003e1ā\u003c\/em\u003e belongs in Darwin for how it resists both travel photography clichés and conceptual overstatement, offering instead an ambient and deeply tactile experience of looking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1290\" data-end=\"1665\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003cbr data-start=\"1305\" data-end=\"1308\"\u003eTitle: 1ā\u003cbr data-start=\"1317\" data-end=\"1320\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: LA Tomari\u003cbr data-start=\"1346\" data-end=\"1349\"\u003eDate: 2009\u003cbr data-start=\"1359\" data-end=\"1362\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Offset\u003cbr data-start=\"1397\" data-end=\"1400\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Softcover, textured wraps\u003cbr data-start=\"1445\" data-end=\"1448\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eDimensions (cm): approx. 21 × 29.7 (A4)\u003cbr data-start=\"1487\" data-end=\"1490\"\u003eLanguage: Japanese, with English translation\u003cbr data-start=\"1534\" data-end=\"1537\"\u003ePages: Unnumbered\u003cbr data-start=\"1554\" data-end=\"1557\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: WALL\u003cbr data-start=\"1581\" data-end=\"1584\"\u003eEdition: First edition, 500 copies\u003cbr data-start=\"1618\" data-end=\"1621\"\u003eISBN: 4-9902835-7-0\u003cbr data-start=\"1640\" data-end=\"1643\"\u003eCondition: Very good\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52607820661074,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/TODWEBB_copy_3_8b286eb0-73c1-48ae-995a-91c57df5238e.jpg?v=1769959597","url":"https:\/\/thedarwin.es\/en-it\/products\/1a-la-tomari-first-edition-2009","provider":"DaRWIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}